The Trump administration has created a new category of federal workers that will make it easier to fire about 50,000 senior career employees.
A final rule issued on Thursday by the Office of Personnel Management, which oversees the federal workforce, allows agencies to reclassify employees in policy-influencing roles into a new category called Schedule Policy/Career, which are at-will positions that do not offer the strong job protection long enjoyed by career workers.
“Agency supervisors report great difficulty removing employees for poor performance or misconduct,” the 255-page rule reads. “This will allow agencies to quickly remove employees from critical positions who engage in misconduct, perform poorly, or obstruct the democratic process by intentionally subverting presidential directives.”
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